Inprint Brown Reading Series: David Wroblewski

Brazos Book of the Month August 2010

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen Confidential.

In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business—and for Anthony Bourdain.

Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.

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Inprint Brown Reading Series: David Wroblewski

Start: January 25, 2010 - 7:30pm

David Wroblewski burst onto the literary scene last summer with his debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. The 600+ page novel, a “spellbinding first novel…nearly impossible to put down” (Kirkus Reviews), follows the life of Edgar, a mute boy who grows up on a dog breeding farm in Wisconsin. Richard Russo writes, “I doubt we’ll see a finer literary debut this year....Wroblewski’s got storytelling talent to burn and a big, generous heart to go with it”; Stephen King says, “I flat out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle....I don’t reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one.” The Washington Post Book World calls it a “big-hearted novel you can fall into, get lost in and finally emerge from reluctantly, a little surprised that the real world went on spinning.” The novel, a New York Times bestseller, was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Wroblewski grew up in Wisconsin and wrote the book, he said, because he wished he could read a novel about a boy and a dog “flavored with the uncynical Midwestern sense of heart and purpose so familiar from my childhood."

General admission tickets: $5, on sale January 4, 2010

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Location:

Alley Theatre
615 Texas Ave.
Houston, Texas 77002